For over 100 years Pine Mountain has been focused on enriching lives and connecting people through Appalachian place-based education for all ages.
An in-depth digital look at the Pine Mountain Settlement School Archive. The collection
FULL INDEX TO ARCHIVAL COLLECTIONS
ABOUT THE ARCHIVE
OUR VISION
The Vision of the Pine Mountain Settlement School Archive is to provide a voice that will encourage transformations in our relationship to the cultures of the Appalachian region through access to a unique and extensive body of material about a rural settlement school within the region. The rural settlement school movement and its impact on the people of Eastern Kentucky and the Southern Appalachians is a story that has sometimes been misrepresented, romanticized, or only partially understood. We envision an accessible, deep, vibrant and vital resource that will encourage exploration and collaborative dialogue about the hidden and sometimes contested history of rural settlement schools. We envision a broader dissemination of research materials across all public, private, and federal sectors interested in Southern Appalachian cultures and life. more …
OUR ARCHIVAL MISSION
The Pine Mountain Settlement School archival mission supports the institutional mission and strategic planning goals. Our institutional mission continues a long 105-year history of multiple educational and social enrichment programs centered on the local community and beyond. Once a boarding school with a progressive educational curriculum, Pine Mountain School’s recent educational programming has moved away from residential education to multi-faceted offerings of short-term environmental, cultural, medical, social, agricultural, and art and craft programs and workshops. But, the archive has not moved away from, nor will it move away from, a commitment to Pine Mountain as place and people. more …
To access the Archive go to INDEX TO ARCHIVAL COLLECTIONS (also at the top of the page).
PINE MOUNTAIN SETTLEMENT SCHOOL MAIN PAGE
WHAT’S NEW!
JUNE 2019
DANCING IN THE CABBAGE PATCH Pigs
“We are anxiously questioning just how long we must wait until “Sammy” and “his brothers and his sisters and his aunts” are excluded from their paradise,” wrote Katherine Pettit in 1913. ” If you can’t be a “flying figure in bluejeans yelling ‘Suey!, Suey!, can you be a substitute in the shape of some rods of woven wire, five-foot fence? ”
Sammy had another perspective. This is his tale.
SAMMY
by Evangeline Bishop
“Did he not possess cravings and unsatisfied longings for better things; did he not come to the close of each day hungry for the unattainable; and had he not heard that this School existed for the sole purpose of fulfilling needs? … MORE …
The word “Settlement” but added charm, for to Sammy it gave visions of permanency and far-reaching satisfaction. Yes! It was certainly good to be alive, and a member of this community and he firmly resolved to be on hand every day, rain or shine in a receptive mood, ready to embrace every opportunity. To be filled to the utmost was his great ambition.
Pine Mountain Settlement School Letters to Friends 1913
LATEST BIOGRAPHY: Dr. Tracy Jones and Florence Jones
Dr. Tracy Jones must have been highly appreciated by the Pine Mountain Settlement School when he stepped in to help during a shortage of doctors and nurses at the School in the early 1950s. When asked for assistance by then PMSS director, Burton Rogers, he agreed to spend three days a week as a clinic and hospital doctor at the new hospital in West Wind at Pine Mountain Settlement School, while also conducting his own practice in nearby Harlan. He eventually moved to the School with his wife Florence Houghton Jones and four lively red-headed children. More …
ANN RUTH MEDCALF LETTER TO MARGUERITE BUTLER
Medical practice, health and hygiene on horseback. The route of Ann Ruth Medcalf nurse for the Pine Mountain Line Fork Settlement 14 March 1922.
MARCH 2019
NEW LEADERSHIP: PRESTON JONES, an energetic and productive innovator, says of his new leadership role
“… I am truly honored. Having grown up in Harlan County,
I often wondered if there was a
future for me here. My experience at Pine Mountain has reinforced what I always knew to be true, there is a future for Harlan County and the region, and that Pine Mountain is uniquely positioned to pave the way forward… I’m excited about the trajectory of the School and look forward to working with you all to carry out your remarkable mission.” MORE …
SEE WHAT’S NEW! ARCHIVE for older featured collections.
For example: GUIDE TO FAMILIES IN PINE MOUNTAIN VALLEY COMMUNITY.
COMMENTS and CONTACT
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Please contact office@pinemountainsettlementschool.com or (606) 558-3571 with your inquiries and comments. We welcome your identification of people and activities on our site and, particularly, corrections to the record. Please see OUR PRIVACY POLICY and contact our office if you believe we have violated your rights to privacy.
PMSS ARCHIVE MISSION STATEMENT (extended)
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ORAL HISTORY RELEASE AGREEMENT
ORAL HISTORY ASSOCIATION – PRINCIPLES AND BEST PRACTICES
USE AGREEMENT (Reproduction Request Form)
ABOUT OCR TEXT
Many of the texts included in this site have been automatically generated using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. In some cases, these texts have not been manually reviewed or corrected.
OCR enables searching of large quantities of full-text data, but it is not 100% accurate. The level of accuracy depends on the print quality of the original publication and its condition at the time of microfilming. Publications with poor quality paper, small print, mixed fonts, multiple column layouts or damaged pages may have poor OCR accuracy.
CITATION OF MATERIALS
Any PUBLIC use of material must properly cite Pine Mountain Settlement School in the following manner:
“[Identification of Item],” [Collection Name] [Series Number, if applicable]. [date], Pine Mountain Settlement School, Pine Mountain, KY. [date accessed]
STATEMENT REGARDING PRIVACY
The manuscript collections and archival records in the Pine Mountain Settlement School Collections may contain sensitive and/or confidential information derived from historical archives that may be protected under federal and state right to privacy laws and regulations. Researchers who wish to publish and users who may share material from the Pine Mountain Settlement School Collections are advised by this notice that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in some collections within the Pine Mountain Settlement School Collections without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g. may be a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy if facts concerning an individual’s private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person for which Pine Mountain Settlement School assumes no responsibility.
If you believe that your privacy rights have been invaded please notify the following.
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See INDEX TO COLLECTIONS for an overview of collections and series.